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Peter M Boehm

@senboehm.bsky.social

Senator/Sénateur 🇨🇦

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Great discussions in Mexico City with my counterpart, Alejandro Murat, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lots going on in the North American space. All the more reason for 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 to deepen ties, including through parliamentary diplomacy.

08.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Have you registered for the upcoming workshop titled “Saving the Furniture: Which Elements of the Multilateral System Must Be Sustained – and How?”

@senboehm.bsky.social will provide the opening remarks, reflecting on "Multilateralism in a Fracturing World".

Register here >>> bit.ly/3V9kNmY

12.09.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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« Trouver la place du Canada dans un monde désordonné » Le Centre d'études en politiques internationales et l'Association des anciens ambassadeurs du Canada tiennent leur toute première conférence conjointe sur la politique étrangère : «  Trouver la place ...

Lors de la Conference AmbCanada – CÉPI qui s'est tenue en mai, le sénateur @senboehm.bsky.social a clôturé la conférence en présentant le rapport du rapporteur sur la conférence sur la politique étrangère.

>>> bit.ly/4fP7mSD

28.08.2025 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Finding Canada’s Place in a Disordered World - Report by Senator Boehm Centre for International Policy Studies and the Canadian Ambassadors Alumni Association host their first-ever joint foreign policy conference: Finding Canada’s Place in a Disordered World. Canadian heads of mission and academics deliberate on the challenges confronting Canadian diplomacy in today’s evolving geopolitical environment. Experts discuss the unprecedented challenges currently confronting Canada’s prosperity, security, and sovereignty. Senator Peter Boehm delivers the rapporteur’s report on the foreign policy conference.

At the AmbCanada – CIPS Conference held in May, Senator @senboehm.bsky.social wrapped up the conference by delivering the rapporteur’s report on the foreign policy conference.

>>> bit.ly/47NMZTA

28.08.2025 13:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy 🇨🇦 Day from the floor of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Porto, Portugal.

01.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Soy un Diplomatico Canadiense': When Being Canadian Can Save Your Life - Policy Magazine With democracy under threat and human rights abuses prevalent through most of the region, there was much to animate our reporting back to headquarters and our

A few reflections from my earlier career on being Canadian ahead of Canada Day. www.policymagazine.ca/soy-un-diplo...

25.06.2025 22:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Policy Q&A: Former G7 Sherpa Peter Boehm's Kananaskis De-Brief - Policy Magazine The G7 Kananaskis came and went this week with a relatively calm if early exit by Donald Trump, generally positive reviews for Prime Minister Mark Carney's

www.policymagazine.ca/policy-qa-fo...

21.06.2025 17:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A G7 Primer with a Sherpa turned Senator | Blue Skies Podcast with Erin O'Toole | Episode 55 In this episode of Blue Skies, Erin is joined by Senator Peter Boehm, who served as the Canadian ‘Sherpa’ for the last Canadian hosted G7 in 2018. Boehm provides a behind-the-scenes look at how these ...

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13.06.2025 10:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Policy Q&A: Former Sherpa Peter Boehm on the Kananaskis G7 - Policy Magazine Policy Contributing Writer Senator Peter Boehm has served as Canada’s Sherpa for six G7 summits, including the last Canadian G7, at Charlevoix in 2018, which

www.policymagazine.ca/policy-qa-fo... My latest thoughts on the forthcoming G7 Summit at Kananaskis in a Q&A with Lisa Van Dusen, editor and publisher of Policy Magazine.

31.05.2025 21:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Rejoignez-nous le 12 mai pour une conférence conjointe AmbCanada - CÉPI intitulée « Trouver la place du Canada dans un monde désordonné »

L'événement comprendra 3 panels, suivis de réflexions finales par @senboehm.bsky.social

Inscrivez-vous ici pour vous joindre à nous via Zoom >>> bit.ly/3EXmijn

01.05.2025 17:55 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us on May 12th for the first joint AmbCanada – CIPS Conference titled "Finding Canada’s Place in a Disordered World"

The event will feature 3 panels, followed by concluding reflections by @senboehm.bsky.social

Register here to join us via Zoom for this sold out event >>> bit.ly/438FST4

01.05.2025 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My brother: composer, guitarist, synth meister and a pretty good guy.

14.04.2025 19:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Rumours' as a Multilateral Morality Tale: Sherpas Really do Matter, and Canada Saves the Day - Policy Magazine The G7 photo-op that unleashes the zombie apocalypse in Rumours/Bleecker Street-Elevation Pictures

Saw that the new G20 summit action movie has hit the theatres. Here is a repost of my review of “Rumours” a surrealistic satirical movie about a G7 summit that goes really really wrong. But the Canadian PM saves the day. www.policymagazine.ca/rumours-as-m...

14.04.2025 19:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today the 1st Western District Military “Court” in St. Petersburg handed its verdict to Alexander Skobov — a Russian historian, journalist, human rights activist, and Soviet-era political prisoner.

21.03.2025 21:23 — 👍 53    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 1
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Policy Q&A: Former G7 Sherpa Sen. Peter Boehm on Trump, Charlevoix and Bracing for Kananaskis - Policy Magazine Sen. Peter Boehm, far left, in the famous 'intervention' shot from the Charlevoix G7, 2018/Adam Scotti

Some thoughts with Charlevoix and the G7 in the news again. www.policymagazine.ca/policy-qa-fo...

14.03.2025 05:48 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Madness of King Donald - Policy Magazine Canadian leaders and the Canadian public are fed up with the antics of Donald Trump. After he again (partially) reversed direction this week and granted a

Veteran diplomat Jeremy Kinsman tells it like it is. www.policymagazine.ca/the-madness-...

09.03.2025 14:06 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“I hope that all those Western politicians who want to return to ‘business as usual’ with Putin; who want to lend Putin international legitimacy; who want to shake Putin’s hand remember that this is a hand covered in blood.”

My address to the OSCE PA (21 Feb. 2025):

www.oscepa.org/en/documents...

26.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 3

Footnote: the five of us who spoke that day were @senboehm.bsky.social, @senatorstankutcher.bsky.social @donnadasko.bsky.social and Denise Batters. We were all swiftly named personae non gratae by Moscow, along with many Senate colleagues. It’s a badge we wear with honour. #PNG #Ukraine #cdnpoli

25.02.2025 15:01 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Germany's 'Zittersieg' Election - Policy Magazine Political veteran Friedrich Merz, leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) — the party founded by Konrad Adenauer in 1945 and led by Angela

My thoughts on Germany’s election. www.policymagazine.ca/81808-2/

24.02.2025 03:23 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

And all in a few weeks.

18.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
This Year in Munich: The World-Stage Debut of Autocratic America - Policy Magazine https://www.youtube.com/live/pCOsgfINdKg?si=pz83OcVGMRuglPIJ

My thoughts on the Munich Security Conference . www.policymagazine.ca/this-year-in...

16.02.2025 22:59 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Was will Kanada gegen Trumps Drohungen unternehmen? | DW Nachrichten
YouTube video by DW Deutsch Was will Kanada gegen Trumps Drohungen unternehmen? | DW Nachrichten

My interview today in Munich with Deutsche Welle on Trump, EU, tariffs, defence spending & fraught nature of the 🌎 . In German. youtu.be/vzarKnW4AUA

14.02.2025 17:58 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Policy Dispatches: From Weltschmerz to Hope on a Return to Munich - Policy Magazine I first attended the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in 2009, accompanying our then-minister of National Defence, Peter MacKay, in my role as Canada’s

This from last year, more of a travelogue from Munich while at the MSC. Tense mood here among delegates as Munich Security Conference gets underway . www.policymagazine.ca/policy-dispa...

14.02.2025 14:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump-Putin Ukraine peace talks mustn’t exclude Kyiv, EU allies warn U.S. and Russian leaders spoke on the phone Wednesday about ending the war — and agreed to start negotiations “immediately.”

german foreign minister baerbock after trump & putin’s recent talks

“peace can only be achieved together. and that means: with ukraine and with the europeans.”

12.02.2025 20:42 — 👍 177    🔁 44    💬 5    📌 4
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Trump's War on USAID: The Opposite of Making America Great, Again - Policy Magazine A worker removes the lettering from USAID's Washington, DC headquarters, February 7, 2025/NBC

My thoughts on the USAID debacle & implications for 🇨🇦. www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-war-o...

11.02.2025 01:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Neo Retro
Everything old is new again.
#photography #macro #macrophotography #art #suspension

07.02.2025 00:28 — 👍 71    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Policy Q&A: Former G7 Sherpa Sen. Peter Boehm on Trump, Charlevoix and Bracing for Kananaskis - Policy Magazine Sen. Peter Boehm, far left, in the famous 'intervention' shot from the Charlevoix G7, 2018/Adam Scotti

My latest www.policymagazine.ca/policy-qa-fo...

27.01.2025 22:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Music Box
#photography #macrophotography #macro #art #music #crank

25.01.2025 23:03 — 👍 74    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Hey I saw that in the other place too. Such a dashing young ambassador, too young for the archives!

18.01.2025 01:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jimmy Carter, the Georgia outsider who became 39th U.S. president, dead at 100 | CBC News Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who was elected as the 39th U.S. president and later earned a Nobel Peace Prize as a global champion of human rights, has died.

The world has lost a great one. While a junior diplomat in Central America I recall him asking me about Canada’s approach to strengthening democracy in the region. His interest was as genuine as my awe & appreciation of his pivotal role. www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

29.12.2024 23:06 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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